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The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
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The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set.
First published more than thirty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual.
The Outsider is an individual engaged in an intense self-exploration-a person who lives at the edge, challenges cultural values, and stands for Truth.
Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift through life, The Outsider creates his own set of rules and lives them in an unsympathetic environment.
The relative handful of people who fulfilled Wilson's definition of The Outsider in the 1950s have now become a significant social force, making Wilson's vision more relevant today than ever.
Through the works and lives of various artists-including Kafka, Camus, Eliot, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Shaw, Blake, Nietzsche and Dostoyevski-Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him.
Wilson illuminates the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of Self but also the transformation of society as a whole.
The Outsider is essential for everyone who shares Wilson's conviction that a new religion is needed.
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What is an outsider? It's someone who doesn't belong. A misfit, someone who can't fit into the system. When Colin Wilson's book appeared in 1956 is was an instant sensation. At the time, Wilson was a kid camping out on Hamstead Heath, not able to afford any rent, writing in the British Library's reading room. He had no universtiy degree. Yet he penned this vision of reality that hit a raw nerve, that maybe it's people who don't belong are the ones who carry the message that can change society. A mind blowing book.